jcduncan8Apr 5, 202211 min readThe Heywood WWII Letters - Part 13Welcome back to part 13, this post covers the letters for June and July of 1944. Peter is still in South Rhodesia and is close to taking...
jcduncan8Mar 17, 20228 min readThe Heywood WWII Letters - Part 12Welcome back to part 12, it is now May 1944 and Peter is still in Rhodesia on a flying training course. He is having a lot of adventures...
jcduncan8Mar 8, 20228 min readThe Heywood WWII Letters - Part 11Welcome back to part 11 of the letters, Peter was just about to move camp from Belvedere to RAF Cranborne and writes on the 28th March...
jcduncan8Feb 27, 20229 min readThe Heywood WWII Letters - Part 10Welcome back to part 10 of the Peter Heywood war letters. Peter is at RAF Belvedere in Rhodesia to begin his flying training, he has been...
jcduncan8Feb 15, 20228 min readThe Heywood WWII Letters - Part 8Welcome back to part 8, Peter has now been classified a pilot and will be going abroad for further training, it must have been a very...
jcduncan8Feb 8, 20223 min readRAF Fauld Explosion 1944At 11.11 on the 27th November 1944 two explosions occurred at a gypsum mine in Staffordshire killing around 71 people and creating a huge...